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October 1991: Belle Gibson is born
May 2009: Gibson claims to have undergone multiple operations on her heart and also momentarily died on the operating table
July 2009: Gibson claims that a doctor diagnosed her with terminal brain cancer and that she only had four months to live
Early 2013: Gibson launches an Instagram account (@healing_belle) and accompanying website sharing healthy, wholefood recipes
Mid 2013: Gibson releases an app which features her recipes
Mid-2014: Gibson begins working with Apple on the development of an Apple Watch-specific platform for her Whole Food Pantry
November 12, 2014: Cosmopolitan magazine honours Gibson with a Fun, Fearless, Female award in the social media category
Gibson was briefly a celebrity – the recipient of 2014’s Cosmopolitan magazine ‘Fun, Fearless, Female’ award after her too-incredible-to-be-true battle with cancer
March 8, 2015: The Age newspaper unveils an investigation into Gibson’s claims of donating the proceeds of her profits to charity
April 2015: Women’s Weekly publishes an interview with Gibson, where she admits of her cancer claims: ‘None of it’s true’
May 6, 2015: Victoria’s consumer watchdog launches legal proceedings against Gibson over her false claims of defeating cancer by way of a wholefood diet
June 2015: Gibson gives a TV interview to 60 Minutes’s Tara Brown. ‘I’m not trying to get away with anything,’ she said
September 2017: Gibson is fined $410,000 by the Federal Court for her false claims of charitable donations
The judge describes her as having a ‘relentless obsession with herself and what serves her best interests’
June 2019: Almost two years after she was ordered to pay the fine, Gibson tells the same court: ‘I’m not in a position to pay a $410,000 fine at this stage’
December 2019: Consumer Affairs Victoria is quietly secures its first warrant ‘of seizure or sale’ against Gibson
January 22, 2020: The state’s Sheriff executes a ‘seize and sell’ warrant on Gibson’s Northcote home, following inquiries from Daily Mail Australia
January 23, 2020: The Daily Mail reveals Gibson has been ‘adopted’ by the Ethiopian Oromo community of Melbourne and is going by the name Sobantu
May 21, 2021: The sheriff again raids Gibson’s home and neighbours witness her crying outside
June 1: It is revealed that Gibson was bizarrely embroiled in a criminal narcotics case at the Victorian County Court more than 18 months prior
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